Bay fever

Bay fever

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Noun

Bay fever (plural Bay fevers)

1. (Australia, slang, obsolete, derogatory) Any illness feigned by convicts to avoid being sent to Botany Bay.[1][2]

References

1. 1811, Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
2. 1811, Francis Grose, Lexicon balatronicum : a dictionary of buckish slang, university wit, and pickpocket eloquence.